Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753800AbZKTJbt (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:31:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751913AbZKTJbs (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:31:48 -0500 Received: from fxip-0047f.externet.hu ([88.209.222.127]:48184 "EHLO pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751880AbZKTJbr (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:31:47 -0500 To: Pavel Machek CC: jlayton@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <20091119213935.GA11212@elf.ucw.cz> (message from Pavel Machek on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:39:35 +0100) Subject: Re: [PATCH] procfs: make /proc style symlinks behave like "normal" symlinks References: <1258638251-20034-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20091119132833.30bc93a4@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com> <20091119143555.7851953f@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com> <20091119213935.GA11212@elf.ucw.cz> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:31:40 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 21 On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Adding the missing revalidations is fine, but I don't believe that > > helps to fix Pavel's issue. I'll go back and take a more careful look > > at the suggestion that Miklos made and see whether it makes sense to > > implement a new FS_* flag for this, and see what it'll take to fix > > Pavel's issue. What is this "Pavel's issue"? > One posibility would be to make open(/proc/XX/fd/XX) behave like > dup(). That should solve the NFS problems, too, no? You mean, reuse the old "struct file" for the new open? Or what? Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/